The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

was the original title of Howard Spring's novel My Son, My Son !, later adapted for the film of the latter name.

Although officially declassified, the original film taken by U. S. Corona spy satellite in the 1960s has been altered prior to declassification ; in answer to freedom of information queries, the government responds that these exposures ( which map to Groom and the entire NAFR ) appear to have been destroyed .< ref >

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

The original ending, in which Ash oversleeps in the cave and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future, was restored to the film for the UK VHS release, which also had the cinematic ending put in as a post credit extra.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

As a fan of the original film, Accola said she never watched the TV show, but thinks that the Buffy film is a " fun girl-power thing ".

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.

The DVD film was over an hour and half longer than the original theatrical film.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.

In the original book and film, they would be closer to androids or gynoids.

The credits of the original film say that the film is based on In A Glass Darkly.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Reviewing the film for Scientific American, John Rennie says " The term is a curious throwback, because in modern biology almost no one relies solely on Darwin's original ideas ...

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

We'll play Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in the original version, and Mahler's Seventh -- the least accessible, known, and played of Mahler's works.

The Seattle Symphony also recorded a version in the 1980s of Gershwin's original score, before he made numerous edits resulting in the score as we hear it today.

This version includes only two verses, the second of which returns to Bates ' original intention ( see below ).

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

However the original kit version lacked many features that prevented its use as a serious computer system.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License ( version 1. 0 ), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

The 1552 and later editions of the Book of Common Prayer omitted the form of anointing given in the original ( 1549 ) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.

In some versions ( but not in the original Atlas version ), for the sake of easy typing it was possible to strop keywords by placing a "" sign in front of them, for example the keyword < code >< u > endofprogramme </ u ></ code > could be typed as or

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

A paddle controller and an updated self-centering version of the original controller were also in development, but never made it to market.

While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

The original AMOS version was interpreted which, whilst working fine, suffered the same disadvantage of any language being run interpretively.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: Easy AMOS, a simpler version for beginners, and AMOS Professional, a more advanced version with added features, such as a better IDE, ARexx support, a new UI sublanguage and new flow control constructs.

This version was also played in Hamburg, Dresden, Hanover, and Berlin, although, in the wake of protests and a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending.

Another production of the original version, some rehearsals of which Ibsen attended, opened on 3 March 1880 at the Residenz Theatre in Munich.

Prima's original recordings have also featured in many films, including Mad Dog and Glory, Big Night, Anger Management, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Sopranos, Casino, Swingers, Kicking and Screaming, Elf, Swing Kids, Analyze This and Igor, as well as the game Mafia II.

It is located at the site of the former Bird Park, which itself was built from materials left over from the demolition of the original Sugarloaf Casino.

In April 2009, Brown joined actress and former Dancing With the Stars champion Kelly Monaco as original stars of a Las Vegas revue called Peepshow at the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino.

On 2 July 2008, it was announced that the original line-up of Bad Company ( minus Boz Burrell who died in September 2006 ) would do a one-off gig at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida on 8 August 2008 .< ref >

After he purchased the MGM movie studio in 1969, Kerkorian ( with architect Martin Stern Jr .) opened the original MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, larger than the Empire State Building and the largest hotel in the world at the time it was finished.

This expansion is being done partly in competition with the newly opened Wynn Macau, located right next to the original Casino Lisboa.

Originally titled " Lady Fair ", after successful out-of-town tryouts in Wilmington, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts, the original Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances.

In June and July 2008, all of the original members of The Time ( Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jellybean Johnson, and Monte Moir ) reunited once again for a series of shows at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Food, drink, and theater were profitable aspects of the resort since the original Casino of Swanton in 1904.

Its original venue was the Casino Rooms in Rochester, Kent until 2000, before moving in 2001 to its current home at the CityWest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

Image: Copy of 3BellevueFront1880. jpg | Newport Casino original façade, 1880

In order to take advantage of Ramada's recent purchase of the original Tropicana Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, company officials decided to call their new property the " Tropicana Atlantic City ", due to the Tropicana name already being a well-known name in the casino industry.

Based on the success of both Horton ( from a retailing perspective ), and the Olympics ( from a placemaking concept ), the firm continued to evolve is creative expertise in creating retail and entertainment destinations, designing the redevelopment of Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA in 1989 ; the hugely successful $ 680M Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1992, the original Urban Entertainment Center Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles ; the pirate show and facade of the Treasure Island Casino in Vegas in 1993 ; the Las Vegas Fremont Street Experience in 1995 ; and Bellagio in Las Vegas in 1998.

From Philip Kotler's landmark paper on Atmospherics and Alan Hirsch's " Effects of Ambient Odors on Slot-Machine Usage in a Las Vegas Casino ", through the creation and management of the Gruen transfer, retail relies heavily on psychology, original research, focus groups, and direct observation.

Casino Pier also owns a water park across the street, Breakwater Beach, which was remodeled in 2003 from the original Water Works water park that once stood on the property.

**" Golden Nugget " was also the original name of the ACH Casino Resort from 1980 to 1987

In June and July 2008, all of the original members of The Time ( Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jellybean Johnson, and Monte Moir ) reunited once again for a series of shows at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

In the summer of 1904 the Neptune Casino ( named after one of the original bath houses ) was built, designed by architect Edward L. Van Cleeck.

The Court Tennis Building was constructed as part of the original Casino complex in 1880 and in 1980 the National Tennis Court was rededicated, largely through the efforts of Clarence " Clarry " Pell, as the symbolic home of the sport in the United States.

In September 2008, the developers of Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia changed their proposed casino location to The Gallery at Market East, after enduring opposition from residents near the original proposed site in South Philadelphia.

The original proposal for the Foxwoods Casino at The Gallery at Market East was for a 3, 000-slot-machine casino on two floors currently occupied by Burlington Coat Factory, forcing that store to relocate.

Its original venue was the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada but the tournament moved down the strip to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in 2006.

Gameplay in Casino Kid II differs in that players no longer venture around the casino looking for rival gamblers, though the card games still operate in the same fashion as in the original Casino Kid.